mountains in southern Tasmania, Australia, extending for 30 mi (50 km) north-south. They are heavily glaciated and rise to 4,111 ft (1,253 m) at Hartz Mountain. The lower slopes, clad ...
one of the most successful of the Spanish romantic dramatists, editor of standard editions of Spanish classics, and author of fanciful poetry in a traditional style.
hilly basaltic plateau of central Libya. A startlingly black expanse (area 15,500 sq mi [40,150 sq km]), it rises out of the surrounding sand to 2,600 ft (800 m) and ...
fifth caliph of the 'Abbasid dynasty (786-809), who ruled Islam at the zenith of its empire with a luxury in Baghdad memorialized in The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian ...
ancient Etruscan diviners, "entrail observers" whose art consisted primarily in deducing the will of the gods from the appearance presented by the entrails of the sacrificial animal. They also interpreted ...
in Islamic mythology, two angels who unwittingly became masters of evil. A group of angels, after observing the sins being committed on earth, began to ridicule man's weakness. God declared ...
scheme for assigning stars to types according to their temperatures as estimated from their spectra. The Harvard system is a predecessor of the generally accepted MK classification system.
oldest institution of higher learning in the United States (founded 1636) and one of the nation's most prestigious. It is one of the Ivy League schools. The main university campus ...
largest university library and the first institutional library in what became the United States, established when John Harvard, a young Puritan minister, left his collection of 260 volumes to the ...
astronomical research institution headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., on the campus of Harvard University. The CfA was created in 1973 by reorganizing the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical ...
traditional English harvest festival, celebrated from antiquity and surviving to modern times in isolated regions. Participants celebrate the last day of harvest in late September by singing, shouting, and decorating ...
the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox (about September 23). Near the time of the autumnal equinox, the angle of the moon's orbit relative to the Earth's horizon is at ...
in biology, any member of the insect subfamily Gerydinae of the widely distributed Lycaenidae family of common butterflies (order Lepidoptera). Adult lycaenids, sometimes known as gossamer-winged butterflies, are small and ...
in farming, any of several machines for harvesting; the design and function of harvesters varies widely according to crop. See binder; combine; corn harvester; cotton harvester; header; reaper; thresher; windrower. ...
any of several different genera of ants (e.g., Messor, Atta, Pheidole, Pogonomyrmex) that gather seeds and leaves. Messor species collect, husk, and store seeds in their nests. Atta species collect ...
American restauranteur, who operated a chain of restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, each called the Harvey House and often staffed by "Harvey Girls."
English writer and friend of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser; the latter celebrated their friendship in The Shepheardes Calender (1579) through the characters of Hobbinol (Harvey) and Colin Clout (Spenser). ...
English physician and discoverer of the true nature of the circulation of the blood and of the function of the heart as a pump. Functional knowledge of the heart and ...
town ("parish") and seaport, Tendring district,administrative and historic county of Essex, England. It occupies the tip of a small peninsula projecting into the estuary of the Rivers Stow and Orwell.
town (township), Barnstable county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the southern coast of Cape Cod. Named for Harwich, England, it was settled about 1655 and incorporated in 1694. Once ...
state in north-central India. It is bounded on the northwest by the state of Punjab and the union territory of Chandigarh, on the north and northeast by the state of ...
most northerly mountain range in Germany, between the Weser and Elbe rivers, occupying parts of the German Lander (states) of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. At its greatest length it extends ...
city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), central Germany. It lies on the well-forested highland of the Lower Harz Mountains, at an elevation of 1,250 feet (380 m) above sea level. Harzgerode constitutes ...
oasis and region in eastern Saudi Arabia. Al-Hasa oasis, the largest oasis in Saudi Arabia, lies about 40 miles (65 km) west of the Persian Gulf. It has about 30,000 ...
a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (the founder of Islam), the elder son of Muhammad's daughter Fatimah. He belongs to the group of the five most holy persons of Shi'ah, ...
town, northern Pakistan. The town is a textile and communications centre that is connected by the Grand Trunk Road and by rail with Peshawar and Rawalpindi. It has government colleges ...
Egyptian political and religious leader who established a new religious society, the Muslim Brotherhood, and played a central role in Egyptian political and social affairs.
ancient Iranian site located in the Solduz Valley of Azerbaijan. Excavations there have been important for knowledge of the prehistory of northwestern Iran, especially during the late 2nd and early ...
any of the Arab descendants, either direct or collateral, of the prophet Muhammad, from among whom came the family that created the 20th-century Hashimite dynasty. Muhammad himself was a member ...
Islamic religiopolitical sect of the 8th-9th century AD, instrumental in the 'Abbasid overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate. The movement appeared in the Iraqi city of Kufah in the early 700s ...
Japanese politician, whose election as prime minister in 1996 signaled a return to Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule after a brief Socialist regime (1994-95). He left office in 1998 after ...
a hallucinogenic drug preparation derived from the resin secreted by the flowering tops of cultivated female hemp plants (Cannabis sativa). More loosely, in Arabic-speaking countries, the term may denote a ...
ancient archaeological site in southwestern Palestine, located southwest of Lachish (Tel Lakhish) in modern Israel. Excavation of the site, carried out in 1890 by Sir Flinders Petrie and in 1892-94 ...
member of a pre-Christian Jewish sect of uncertain origin, noted for uncompromising observance of Judaic Law. The Hasideans joined the Maccabean revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucids (2nd century BC) to ...
(from Hebrew hasid, "pious one"), a pietistic movement within Judaism that began in the 18th century in southeastern Poland (Volhynia and Podolia) and persists today in small but vigorous groups, ...
(from Hebrew hasid, "pious one"), a 12th- and 13th-century Jewish religious movement in Germany that combined austerity with overtones of mysticism. It sought favour with the common people, who had ...
a late 18th- and 19th-century intellectual movement among the Jews of central and eastern Europe that attempted to acquaint Jews with the European and Hebrew languages and with secular education ...
American educator and a leading medievalist of his generation, known for his critical studies of Norman institutions and the transmission of Greco-Arabic learning to the West.
town ("parish"), Waverley district, administrative and historic county of Surrey, England. Located in the southwestern corner of Surrey, Haslemere is attractively situated between the sandy heights of Hindhead (895 feet ...
dynasty of ancient Judaea, descendants of the Maccabee (q.v.) family. The name derived (according to Josephus, in The Antiquities of the Jews) from the name of their ancestor Hasmoneus (Hasmon), ...
American poet and translator whose body of work and tenure as poet laureate consultant in poetry (1995-97) reveal his deep conviction that poetry, as one critic put it, "is what ...
town, south-central Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India. Lying at an elevation of 3,084 feet (940 metres), the town has a cool, humid climate. It dates from the 12th century ...
sultan of Morocco (1873-94), whose policy of internal reforms brought his country a degree of stability previously unknown and who succeeded in preserving the independence of that North African nation.
king of Morocco from 1961 to 1999. Like King Hussein of Jordan, Hassan was considered by pious Muslims to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (Ahl al-Bayt).
German nationalist and political leader who turned the General German League (Allgemeiner Deutscher Verband), founded in 1891, into the militantly nationalistic and anti-Semitic Pan-German League (Alldeutscher Verband) in 1894.
Norwegian physical chemist and corecipient, with Derek H.R. Barton of Great Britain, of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in establishing conformational analysis (the study of the ...
capital of Limburg province, northeastern Belgium. It lies along the Demer River near the Albert Canal, northwest of Liege. For centuries it has been a centre of administration, a market ...
Romantic poet whose career influenced the "Young Belgium" writers' efforts to establish an identifiable French-Belgian literature in the late-19th century.
major oilfield, east-central Algeria. The field lies in the Grand Erg (sand dunes) Oriental of the Sahara. The Hassi Messaoud oilfield, discovered in 1956, has a generally north-south axis, and ...
town, containing one of the world's major natural-gas fields (discovered in 1956), north-central Algeria. It lies 37 miles (60 km) northwest of Ghardaia. It is also an intermediate stage on ...
ancient Mesopotamian town located south of modern Mosul in northern Iraq. Excavated in 1943-44 by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities, Hassuna was found to represent a rather advanced village culture ...
Egyptian diplomat who was secretary-general of the Arab League (1952-72) and a skillful mediator, particularly during the international crisis that ensued after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez ...
borough (district), administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. The old port of Hastings, premier among the medieval Cinque Ports, has developed in modern times as a ...
city, seat (1878) of Adams county, south-central Nebraska, U.S. The city lies along the West Fork of the Big Blue River. Founded in 1872 at the eastern terminus of the ...
